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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Germany’s conservatives: ready to rerun 1933? The far-right AfD party - supported by luminaries like J.D. Vance and Elon Musk - won a notable state parliament victory in Saxony-Anhalt. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/germanys-c... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/10/germ...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jamelle Bouie and Sam Seder on how Democrats need to fight Trumpism Decades of neoliberal policies and mediocre political reporting have taken a toll on the Democratic Party. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/an-over-ca... Blogspot: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/jamelle-bo...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Robert Pape on political violence It’s a complicated subject. And it’s not a matter of “both sides do it” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/robert-pap... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/robe...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wrestling with “the spectacle” The Situationists had something to say – even if it’s hard to tell what that was. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/wrestling-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/wres...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Polling in the US on the politics of the “working class” (which pundits find it surprisingly hard to define) Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/polling-in... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/poll...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Russia and Ukraine, a war with no end in sight Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/russia-and... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/russ...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bad guys you may never have heard of: Danube Institute of the United States [DIUS], defending “Western civilization” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/bad-guys-y... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/bad-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed schools FOX News hack about asking sleazy questions El-Sayed treats Jesse Watters as what he is, a polemicist attacking him on a partisan basis. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/abdul-e-sa... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/abdu...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Effective and constructive foreign policy requires actual diplomacy And the Trump 2.0 regime is serious deficient on that score. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/effective-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/effe...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The latest round of hand-wringing over not pandering to the radical right (Saxony-Anhalt edition) Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-latest... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Carter Doctrine and the US role in the Middle East today The Carter Doctrine represented a major step toward the involvements the US later took in the Greater Middle East. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-carter... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

US-Israel War on Iran – until 2029? The problem is that the only way of avoiding a years-long war is for the US to pull out of the war. And leaving a war is also a very complicated thing. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/us-israel-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/us-i...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 Years Since the 9/11 Attack From the 9/11 attack to the Forever Wars Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/25-years-s... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/25-y...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New reporting on the Hamas attack on Israel of October 7, 2023 If you thought Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation couldn’t get any worse … Substack: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/haar... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/haar...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Checking in on this year’s “Willie Horton” fake controversy Falsely accusing Democratic politicians of promoting “Jihad” is tacky at the very best. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/checking-i... brucemillerca.substack.com/publish/post... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/demo...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Branko Milanovic on warmongering in Europe Russia and Europe for the foreseeable future will look at each other as potential adversaries. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/branko-mil... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/bran...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dim hopes for approaching Israeli elections More jaded observers talk about the concept of “a ceasefire with Israeli characteristics” - i.e.: you cease, we fire. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/dim-hopes-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/dim-hopes-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How to parse the Trumpistas’ retro-1950s rhetoric Ronald Reagan on how Medicare was the entry drug to Communist tyranny Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/publish/post... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Current German debates over military policy A German Green leader demands that Friedrich Merz’ get more serious about possible military threats from Russia. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/current-ge... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/curr...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Political violence in the US today (2 of 2) In recent years virtually all political violence in the US has coming from the political right - including the ICE versions. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/political-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/poli...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Political violence in the US today (1 of 2) History is helpful in thinking about how political violence in the US might go. But it can also be misleading. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/political-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/poli...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Get US out of the UN? It’s not just the nutty John Birch Society who wants to “Git the US out of the UN.” The Israeli Misgav Institute also thinks it’s a great idea. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/get-us-out... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/git-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The “spectacle” of Adbusters Adbusters is cool and interesting, even if What It Means isn’t always clear. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-specta... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Jewish Israelis are united in their support for perennial war, which effectively means charting an increasingly solitary regional and global path,” writes Ori Goldberg. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/israeli-el... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/isra...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Navigating today’s neo-McCarthyism in politics Trumpist redbaiting can be tricky to navigate. But there are people like Bernie Sanders who are pros at doing so. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/navigating... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/navi...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Getting out the vote and defeating voter suppression attempts (1) Republicans don’t want you to vote – which means we really need to have a high turnout in this year’s elections!! Substack: prodademocratsabroadorg.substack.com/p/getting-ou...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Hybrid” threats and a mystery drone at the Leipzig Airport The often-used concepts of “hybrid” threats and “hybrid” warfare are too vague and used much too often. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hybrid-thr... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/hybr...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ukraine and European diplomacy Britain, France, Germany and Russia have been holding meeting’s to arrange peace talks over the Russia-Ukraine War. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/ukraine-an... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/ukra...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

More on the Ceuta incident and its international context This was the first stress test for the recently-implemented Common European Asylum System (CEAS). The EU didn’t do so well initially. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/more-on-th... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/more...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What’s up with the US’ new partner (?!) Venezuela? Why again was the Maduro regime such a threat to the United States? Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/whats-up-w... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/what...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ceuta immigration incident, five days on The EU countries try to focus on how to avoid political crises over every blip in immigration. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/ceuta-immi... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/ceut...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The recent refugee flow from Morocco to Spain and … Israeli involvement?? The possible roles of the US and Israel in the recent incident are worth keeping in mind. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-recent... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Refugee influx from Morocco into Spain EU politicians of the center and left need to learn to push back against the far right’s immigration demagoguery. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/refugee-in... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/08/refu...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

AOC on The Majority Report AOC has some progressive and practical advice for Democratic candidates. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/aoc-on-the... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/aoc-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

War from Poland (?) to Yemen A reminder that long wars bring lots of problems. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/war-from-p... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/war-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Current state of the Russia-Ukraine forever war It’s reasonable to expect that the war will eventually become a frozen conflict. How long that may take is another question. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/current-st... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/curr...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Iran War punditry: A coincidental encounter with Bobo and Ruth on PBS I’m not prepared for a world in which David Brooks and Ruth Marcus sound sensible and realistic! Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/iran-war-p... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/iran...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Christian Right Trumpism The Christian Right runs on ever-renewed extremism. And now the Catholic brand has a big proponent with J.D. Vance. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/christian-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/chri...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The implications of mass acceptance of vigilante murder – the Azaria Affair in Israel “[I]t was precisely Azaria’s merciless, gratuitous act of killing that made him a hero.” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-implic... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mainstream pundits all too easily fall into the trap of assuming that voters are too blinkered to pay attention to Big Issues like the sanctity of elections or the rule of law. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/saving-lib... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/savi...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The politics of Anti-Communism in the United States was historically not primarily directed against people and political groups that identified themselves as communists. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/anti-commu... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/anti...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard The Revolutionary Guard is a key secular part of the current Iranian power structure. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/irans-revo... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/iran...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Good advice about a favorite Pod Pundit genre. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Iran War disaster, authored by the US and Israel, proceeds A particular factor in the current situation is that the President of the United States is physically and mentally unfit. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-iran-w... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TrumpCarthyism, 2026 Trump 2.0 is embracing some of the worst pathologies of the McCarthyist Red Scare era. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/trumpcarth... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/trum...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is appointing weirdos as senior security officials a good idea? The record on that isn’t good. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/is-appoint... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/is-a...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Counting European armed forces It’s trickier than one might think! Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/counting-e... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/coun...

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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Mamdani approach to governance may be catching! Paris also has a Socialist mayor – though the s-word in not nearly so exotic in French politics as in the US Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-mamdan... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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